[2] Her murder was not discovered until 1999, thirty years later, when her body was found in the former home of Howard B. Elkins, a prominent businessman who was identified as the prime suspect.

Elkins committed suicide by gunshot in the back seat of a Ford Explorer at a friend's home in Boca Raton, Florida after an interview with the police.

Markings showed it had been shipped to Melrose Plastics, a Manhattan-based artificial flower company partly owned by Howard B. Elkins, who was the former homeowner of the Jericho house.

[6] A Social Security number written on the first page belonged to Reyna Angélica Marroquín, a 27-year-old immigrant from El Salvador who had worked as a nanny and was employed at the Melrose Plastics factory on East 34th Street.

[4] A woman fitting Marroquín's description reportedly appeared with a toddler at Melrose Plastics and employees joked that the child's father was, in fact, Elkins.

[2] He then took her body to the house in Jericho, possibly with the intention of dumping her in the ocean from his boat, but after filling the barrel with plastic pellets to ensure it would sink he found it too heavy to move and left it in the crawl space.